Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Size

Updated on : Oct 22, 2024

The global gesture recognition and touchless sensing market size is projected to grow from USD 24.6 billion in 2024 to USD 62.2 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 20.4% during the forecast period from 2024 to 2029.

Growth in digitalization, rise in technological advancements across industry verticals, and increase usage of touchless ensing in automotive and healthcare industries are major factors driving the market growth. Further, increasing use of gesture recognition in VR and video games is likely to create new growth opportunity during the forecast period.

Major automobile manufacturers, including Volkswagen AG (Germany), BMW AG (Germany), and Mercedes-Benz-a division of Daimler AG (Germany), have integrated gesture control technology in their vehicles and created a platform for gesture recognition technology to enhance control interfaces. In 2024, Harman launched Ready Connect 5G Telematics Control Unit (TCU), which uses new Snapdragon Digital Chassis connected car technologies from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to push connectivity boundaries and democratize the automotive connectivity landscape.

The objective of the report is to define, describe, and forecast the gesture recognition and touchless sensing industry based on technology, product, type, industry, and region.

AI Impact in Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market

The gesture recognition and touchless sensing ecosystem are leveraging artificial intelligence to address some of the emerging use cases such as biometric attendance, immersive gaming, liveness detection, and fall detection.

AI use cases in Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Forecast to 2029

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Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Trends

Driver: Growth in digitalization and rise in technological advancements across industry verticals

Applications of gesture recognition technology spread across a variety of high-growth industries, from consumer electronics to healthcare. In the healthcare domain, wearable sensors were used for applications such remote control of medical devices, gesture-based navigation in X-ray and MRI displays without touching them, and even improvement in patients' daily activities through intuitive gestures.

Similarly, in the gaming industry, gestures are used as commands, enabling an intuitive and natural way of application use, recognizing intentional and unintentional movements to provide a smooth gaming experience. In consumer electronics, smartphones, tablets, and laptops are some of applications where use of gesture recognition is increasing for easy control. Moreover, gesture recognition technology is likely to grow significantly in automotive vertical on the back of ever growing vehicle safety regulations to reduce driver distraction.  

Restraint: High replacement expenses and user resistance to new products

One major market growth restraint is customer satisfaction with the older biometric products. Many end users, such as those in commercial applications, banking, and finance, use biometric systems for authentication and identification purposes. Most end users are unwilling to replace the existing system for reasons such as the high expense associated with replacement and satisfaction with the performance of the existing ones.

Similarly, the concern of being tracked without users' knowledge by the government and other organizations is also expected to hamper the market's growth. A significant share of the population is skeptical about giving biometric samples. However, this belief is already losing grip. It is expected to completely fade within five years as all major transactions and citizen registrations will be based on biometric authentication systems. Countries adopting touchless biometric systems on a large scale are the US, Canada, Germany, France, India, Japan, and South Korea.

Opportunities: Adoption of gesture recognition and touchless sensing technologies in the smart home market

Home automation is achieved using gestures to control appliances. Switching on TV, lights, and music systems in smart homes can be done with the help of gesture recognition technology. Devices will be operable through specific human gestures. Using Kinect (Microsoft) as an assistive technology at home was also popular, especially in activity monitoring, telerehabilitation, and elderly care.

The system continuously monitors users and detects bad postures. Logs can be accessed via mobile devices to see their progress. Kinect is the Ambient Wall, a smart home system that allows users to control the television, air conditioning, and others through an interface projected on a wall.

Moreover, Samsung offers gesture control smart TVs, which has gesture recognition range within 3.5m of the camera. Further, Xiaomi offers automatic smart lock with a touchless sensing features. The growth of the smart homes market is creating lucrative opportunities for the players operating in the gesture recognition and touchless sensing market.

Challenges: High costs and complex framework of product technologies

Products offered in the gesture recognition and touchless sensing market are relatively expensive compared with conventional touch-based biometric devices. These products are accurate, fast, and error- free. As the adoption of touchless sensing products is expected to increase in the coming years, the average selling price (ASP) will likely decline.

However, in the current market scenario, various research and development activities are underway to acquire sophisticated touchless devices across multiple industries, including healthcare, residential, commercial, and automobile. Thus, the high price of touchless sensing devices is expected to be the major challenge in the market during the forecast period.

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Map/Ecosystem

Gesture recognition and touchless sensing Market: Key Trends.

The prominent players in the gesture recognition and touchless sensing market are Apple Inc. (US), Microsoft Corporation (US), Microchip Technology Inc. (US), Google LLC (US), Infineon Technologies (Germany), Sony Depthsensing Solutions (Belgium), OMNIVISION (US), Cognitec Systems GmbH (Germany), GestureTek (Canada), and IrisGuard (UK), and among others. These companies boast mixing trends with a comprehensive product portfolio and strong geographic footprint.

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Segment Analysis

Touchless sanitary equipment is expected to grow at the highest CARG in the and touchless sensing market during the forecast period.

During the forecast period, the segment with the highest CAGR is anticipated to be touchless sanitary equipment. The section of touchless sanitary equipment has been further divided into touchless faucets, touchless hand dryers, paper towel dispensers, flushes, and touchless soap dispensers.

Touchless dispenser systems effectively increase hygiene in sanitary rooms by enabling the simple and clean removal of consumables and their hygienic disposal in washbasins and toilets. Commercial houses and public places are where different kinds of people gather at one place and come in contact with one another. Multiple companies, such as Hindware, have combined technology and aesthetics to bring the touchless sanitaryware line.

The healthcare segment is expected to hold the highest CAGR of the gesture recognition market during the forecast period.

The healthcare segment is expected to grow the most during the forecast period. Advanced technologies, such as virtual physical therapy, are being slowly adopted in the healthcare industry for remote patient monitoring. Gesture recognition technology finds its application in the healthcare sector in tracking medication adherence, detecting immobility, observing sleeping patterns, alerting on missed meals and low consumption of liquid, motivating smoking cessation, and even neurological malfunctioning.

A Duke University Clinical Research Institute, US, is formulating a virtual rehabilitation solution with the help of which guided physical therapy instructions can be delivered at home to patients undergoing knee replacement surgery. Such initiatives are being taken by companies like Reflexion Health, Inc., (US) to digitize the healthcare industry and create patient-centered care.

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Regional Analysis

The Asia Pacific gesture recognition and touchless sensing market is expected to have a high CAGR during the forecast period.

The gesture recognition and touchless sensing industry is prominent in the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pacific has adopted gesture recognition and touchless sensing items at a faster rate than other regions. The healthcare industry is gradually adopting advanced technologies, such as virtual physical therapy, to empower remote patient monitoring.

The use of gesture recognition technology in the healthcare industry can help in medication adherence, detect immobility, observe sleeping habits, provide alerts about missed meals and low liquid consumption, encourage smoking cessation, and even monitor neurological malfunctioning.

The introduction of smart technologies, such as gesture control, in the healthcare industry is likely to reduce the expenses imposed on senior and disabled patients. Duke University’s Clinical Research Institute (US) is developing a virtual rehabilitation solution. This innovation would benefit patients undergoing knee replacement (TKR) surgery by delivering guided physical therapy instructions at home.

China focuses on enhancing its security standards by using touchless biometric solutions at its border points. According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, gaming applications are growing at a high rate, leading to a higher demand for gesture recognition in the country. The demand for gesture recognition in consumer applications is higher in various application such as, smartphones, laptops & tablets, and smart TVs, is expected to propel the growth of the gesture recognition market in China.

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market by Region

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Top Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Companies - Key Market Players

Major vendors in the gesture recognition and touchless sensing companies include

• Apple Inc. (US),
• Microsoft Corporation (US),
• Microchip Technology Inc. (US),
• Google LLC (US),
• Infineon Technologies (Germany),
• Sony Depthsensing Solutions (Belgium),
• GestureTek (Canada),
• OMNIVISION (US),
• Cognitec Systems GmbH (Germany), and
• IrisGuard (UK), among others.

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Report Scope

Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Market Highlights

This report categorizes the gesture recognition and touchless sensing market based on technologies, product, type, industry, and region.

Recent Developments in Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing Industry

• In March 2024, OMNIVISION launched its new OV50K40, the smartphone image sensor with TheiaCel™ technology. The TheiaCel™-based OV50K40 50-megapixel (MP) image sensor featured a 1.2-micron (µm) pixel in a 1/1.3-inch optical format with high gain and correlated multiple sampling (CMS) for optimal performance in low-light conditions.
• In April 2024, Microchip Technology Inc. acquired VSI Co. Ltd., an industry-leading company based in Seoul that supplies high-speed, asymmetric, camera, sensor, and display connectivity technologies and products, based on ASA, an open standard for in-vehicle networking.
• In May 2023, Microsoft Corporation announced that its HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is now available in Saudi Arabia. Companies globally used HoloLens 2 to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and increase efficiencies. It was used by Mercedes-Benz for remote assistance solutions that improve technical efficiency while reducing carbon footprint and travel costs by 40%.

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